This is what happens when you get a business person in charge rather than a policy wonk. I agree with John Key, there is no real reason other than bureaucratic pontification for any delays in getting some solutions on the table.

It is rather refreshing to have a doer in charge rather than a talker.

The civil service in Wellington is in for a big shake-up when Key gets going because he simply will not accept weaselly excuses about non-performance. In business you either do or don’t and the “don’ts” or “can’ts” get fired.

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.

They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.